Found with 16,000 pictures of child abuse, Transgender Ringwood Paedophile, Samantha Norris, a charity store worker judged to have “alarming and complex views” confessed she made a New Year’s resolve to have sex with a child under ten years old.
Samantha Norris, a gender-transitioning woman, was discovered to have an ‘abhorrent’ collection of 16,000 obscene photographs of minors.
These comprise 121 recordings of category A, the most severe type, and almost 2,000 still pictures.
The court heard pictures of toddlers as young as three with others displaying minors aged roughly six in “distress and pain”.
One count of possessing banned photos of children and a charge of possessing an extreme pornographic image portraying a person engaging in sexual contact with an animal, 56-year-old Samantha Norris admitted three charges of manufacturing indecent photos of minors of categories A, B and C.
She entered the plea during a trial whereby she was cleared of allegations of sexual activity in the presence of a child and of indecent exposure to two 11-year-old females.
Noting Samantha Norris’s sentencing According to Judge Nicholas Rowland, Norris also had written notes detailing sexual fantasies involving a four-and-a-half-year-old child and a “New Year’s resolution to have sex with a girl under 10”.
“It’s all about you, Samantha Norris, not the victims,” he told the defendant.
“You have skewed beliefs and do not feel your misbehaviour should be handled as severe; how would a right-minded person perceive that? You do not accept they are victims.
Your opinions are disturbing and nuanced; you run a significant risk of hurting youngsters.
“It’s pretty blatant to me that you decided not to enter guilty pleas (earlier) as these pleas would have gone in front of the jury of the other matters.”
The prosecution had claimed during the trial charges of exposure and sexual conduct, of which Norris was acquitted, that the defendant had “exposed her penis” purposefully to the two children via the window of her flat.
But Samantha Norris, who worked at a Sue Ryder charity shop, told the court she was a naturist who was “habitually naked” in her own house, and the children could only have seen her naked if they had been “spying on her.”
She added that she had been the victim of abuse by town children and felt these girls had been “taunting” her.
On Thursday, Samantha Norris, of Ringwood, was imprisoned for two years at Southampton Crown Court; he was also subject to a ten-year sexual harm prevention order.
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